hi friends this is a special announcement to let you know deadheirrecords has premiered a new show on YouTube. Click here to watch episode 1! Musical Exquisite Corpses will release a new episode every saturday. come join us in the morgue and hang out while we do the autopsy. xoxo leoAv deadheirrecords

the remastered, reissued on vinyl, deluxe edition of deadheirrecords: episode 1 of the pod in which our heroes make a first attempt at sitting on their couch and talking to each other, talk shop about what gave them the dumb idea to apply to juilliard back in the day, dissect some of the early bummers, and set the stage for later, even bigger bumme…

hi all. join me for a lo-fi audio asmr adventure where i listen to mitski's latest song cop car and talk to myself. it's like you're there in the car with me.Av dead heir records

hi all. back with a surprise episode for the new year. i go on a long monologue about acting and performing music. i hope it rings true to ya'll in some way, because it helped me crystallize a lot of ideas i was having about performing, and how i always felt uncomfortable with it. and i truly think acknowledging all the roles a person can play will…

what do patsy cline and gnarls barkley have in common? they both wrote a song called crazy and we analyze both and decide who wore it better.how is the word crazy best represented in musical language? what is the infinite in music and how can you represent it? why can i listen to the gnarls barkley crazy until i go blind? who exactly is HW plainfie…

hi folks it's an episode about the aught's favorite hipsters the decemberists! every once in awhile it's healthy to acknowledge that our personal heritage is made up of sad white guys, so we take a listen to a song i've been hearing on the radio a lot called "sucker's prayer."we talk timelessness, "the nihilistic happy", nostalgia, harold and maude…

season 2 of dead heir records kicks off with a hit disciple of cheree by suicide from 1977. hi again to all our billions--we're still out here don't worry.happy birthday to us! this episode is releasing exactly 1 year after our first show, bad choices pt. 1--go listen to it. and as a birthday prezzy to us, subscribe to our show on someone else's ph…

holy moly does anyone remember "all for love" from the three musketeers? it came out in 1993, and rod stewart, bryan adams, and sting really go hogs deep in this one. we talk about it for longer than anyone arguably should. but boy oh boy what a pretty song. ever wondered what dependability sounds like in its platonic ideal? this song. i hope you a…

the boys return from their break and analyze ty dolla sign's "don't judge me." anonymous 1 attempts to settle beef with his judging peers, anonymous 2 takes beef with rappers who get stuck, and we speak at length about the desire to fill up space after you sing in music. THEN THERE'S A 7/8 OUTRO. come for the jokes--stay for the compound meters. pi…

in which dhr dissects madonna's "like a prayer" and wonders why it's just so goddamn good. this is the kinda song that makes u wanna pull grandpa off his deathbed and get him to dance with too!! we talk the use of slow introductions in songs, cellular melodic motives, gospel choir, the throwing off of sexual repression in favor of having a party, a…

introducing anonymous number 5 who joins us for a special cast to talk about sampling, how he got into music, beat making, what you listen to and look for in music when you're not a big music theory nerd. and bioshock, jay z, and ramses shaffy. check out his "a remix, brother" on our channel here, which is featured in the intro and outra to this po…

we dare each other to listen to a stupid ass song and wind up getting stuck in margaritaville for almost 2 hours. what an intense song about alcoholism and giving up. one of us had never heard it b4 and it kinda blew their mind. shout outs to jimmy for making an entire industry out of one stupid song. go buy some of his key lime pie filling mix. bu…

what is there to like about classical music? we talk about what it actually has going for it, and what we still hold very dear 2 our hearts about it, despite being just so aggro in this podcast series about its failings. turns out it can be pretty cool if u r interested. most of the piano music in this episode is performed by anonymous #2. what are…

what is being intentional in music? does an improvisation or freestyle tossed off in 2 minutes have just as much going for it as a string quartet that had months of work poured into it?we discuss different genres of music, and the role that improvisation vs. intention plays in each of them, focusing a lot on hip-hop as compared to classical music. …

the boys talk about one of their favorite songs of all time. that came out when we were but kiddos. and made us all feel things. it's a wild ride. i hope we don't get taken down cuz i really like this one. welcome to our new guest who you all haven't heard before. it's nice to get not our voices on this thing sometimes. THERE'S SO MUCH CHROMATICISM…

spring break has ended and the boys are back at it. we do a hit disciple this week on a psychedelic golden oldie from 1980's "underwater moonlight" called kingdom of love.we also get incredibly hung up on this one guitar riff for like 20 minutes that for the life of us we can't write down. so enjoy that part. we also talk about how blues guitar is …

music competitions tend to be where classical musicians lose interest in playing anymore. but they also are the so-called place where classical musicians get their big break. but they are also just inherently stupid and misguided. so what's the big deal? are music competitions just misguided nationalism? are they for parents? for teachers? they sur…

dj rashad is on the brain. and chicago footwork. and we talk about "i don't give a fuck" from 2013 album double cup. this episode has some real intense rhythms in it. we realize they are much harder to understand and notate than melody, pitch, and harmony. but we try any way. hope you all enjoy. check out all dj rashad's music--his songs are modern…

we like video games. and we like video game music. so we each picked a good track of video game music to talk about. they are ninja gaiden: act 3 part 1, sonic 3: angel island act 2, and neir automata: memories of dust. if you all like video games too, you should go check out 8bit music theory: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzf…

we talk about an old favorite song by leonard cohen called "suzanne." and we get really confused by the weird ass switch from 6/8 to 4/4 in the beginning of the song. and then we theorize about pronouns in music and what they mean in this day and age. what happened to the chorus that makes up our chorus? who is you and who am i in a love song? do i…

so we analyzed a song none of us like. as an experiment. to see if it would make us like it. it didn't.not gonna mention its title because there's a very good chance it gets taken down.we might be a little hard on this song, but you know what? anthony kiedis has $120 million according to some google in 2012, so he can handle 3 boys making fun of th…

the boys speak to classical music guilt and how we've dealt with it. we go back to the roots of our evil and try to figure out where it all started, and how it fueled us through juilliard. then we address a bigger issue--that of the ghosts of composers haunting all of us. we establish a glenn gould fan club and talk about his great relationship wit…

it's groundhog day. and in the spirit of lowering the bar even further, we don't even talk about music. we dig deep in the archives of our recording sessions back to when we first bought our mics to bring you a conspiracy theory as that runs as deep as the darkest burrow. please come and celebrate a dead heir birthday and the greatest holiday of th…

hit disciples back and we analyze a song we love way too much. lucki's "count on me" from the chicago rapper's 2013 album "alternative trap." he was 16 when he made this track. that's nuts. we lose our minds about how good it is for like 2 hours. and we saw you all liked our last hiphop episode, so we hope you like dis one too. we talk about how mu…

it's a party in the bronx and we've stuffed a bunch of people into our little room to record a group hit disciple that our boy matt requested--we talk harmonic shop, and then conversation devolves into sexuality, boy bands, 90s vulnerability, and whatever else we can think of. special thanks to isaac and matt for showing up and recording with us. c…